Transformer director Michael Bay is said to be working on a new crime series for the CW. On board as an executive producer, Bay will be teaming up on the show ‘Outsiders’ with Brad Fuller and Andrew Form. Per Variety, the first TV project for Bay will center on a sociology professor “with an almost savant like expertise in subcultures, who partners with a young but uptight female detective.” Together the two will tackle crimes in Los Angeles. Outsiders is from Michal Bay’s Platinum Dunes Production Company and CBS Television Studios. The script comes Supernatural and The Cleaner writer Adam Glass. Top exec Mark Pedowitz from the CW has said
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While this is supposedly just at the pitch stage, a recent report suggests that the next Friday the 13th film may be going with a “found footage” format.

According to Shock Till You Drop, there are internal development talks about re-tooling the next Friday the 13th sequel/reboot to work as a “found footage” film. They have also confirmed with Brad Fuller of Platinum Dunes that there is no movement on the previous planned sequel to the 2009 remake.

During the last couple of weeks there have been rumors that one of the major slasher franchises was considering taking the “found footage” route, and we wouldn’t be surprised if there are similar talks going on for other popular franchises. Given the success and low risk of the format, we know it’s attractive for studios, but jumping onto the latest fad doesn’t mean instant success, as we just saw
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There's been a lot of buzz around the industry recently about one of the big slasher franchises looking to take the found footage approach. Though everyone was trying to keep it quiet, that nasty old cat is finally out of the bag.

According to Shock Till You Drop, after a bit of digging, it has been revealed that the folks behind the next Friday the 13th film have been heavily considering the cinéma vérité approach for the next entry in the long running series.

And who are the people behind it? Brad Fuller at Platinum Dunes assured Shock today that there is still no movement on any sort of sequel to the Dunes' 2009 production. He also would not confirm or deny the company is fielding ideas from other writers.

The reality is that unless all the powers that be (including Paramount, Platinum Dunes, New Line and Sean Cunningham) come to an agreement of sorts,
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Shock has been following rumblings around town of a beloved horror icon adapting to the "found footage" treatment.
With a bit of digging, we discovered it was none other than a new Friday the 13th was at the center of these development talks.
Last we heard, a sequel penned by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift had not yet been given the green light. Needless to say, I was surprised to hear that a follow-up was possibly being re-tooled to match the "found footage" fad that horror has been latching onto, especially after Apollo 18 's dismal box office performance. (Time will soon tell if audiences will respond to Paranormal Activity 3 and if the "found footage" sub-genre has legs.)
Brad Fuller at Platinum Dunes assured us today, however, that
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This fond revisiting of the slasher movie, and its rise to glory, is in honour of this weeks’ Fright Fest, where our man, Tom Fordy, will be scaring himself witless, and then reporting on his spine-chilling experiences.

Since time immemorial human beings have had a strange and morbid fascination with fear. It can be as mysterious and pleasurable as love, and just as painful too. So, it is no surprise that the horror genre, and its love child, the slasher sub genre, has become such a popular phenomenon with filmgoers the world over.

George Archainbaud’s Thirteen Women (1932), and Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960) could be labelled as precursors to the slasher genre, but Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) utilised and innovated what would soon become the familiar genre-specific criteria.

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If you really think about it, Jason Voorhees was incredibly creative. An artist of death. Though everyone always thought the little deformed boy who drowned in the lake had some sort of mental deficiency, if you look at his impressive body (or should I say "bodies") of work, he truly had some evil genius in him. Anyone with anger issues can stab a person with a knife but only someone who is truly twisted can punch off a head or impale someone through the eye. And Jason came up with new and gross ways to kill time and time again.
Don't believe that Jason was a genius? There's a visual piece of evidence to back it up. It's a comprehensive infographic by The National Post showing all of the people Jason Voorhees murdered from Friday the 13th Part 2 though Jason X as well as how he did it. Check out
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It would appear that yet another reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is on the way. But wasn’t there a CGI version released as recently as 2007 you ask? It all begins to make some sort of sense when the name of the production company behind this latest venture is revealed – Platinum Dunes.

Yep, that’s right – producers Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form continue their ‘throw against a wall and see if it sticks’ approach to rebooting favourite cult properties from the past, and now those renaissance artist-monikered heroes in a half-shell are next in line.

Before you all your bang your laptops shut and shove your iPhones back in your pocket in utter disgust, the trio have tapped the two screenwriters of the upcoming Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec. The duo have previously had a solid career in TV (working under the tutelage
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While not everyone may be a fan, almost anyone knows who the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' are. It's this inherent fame that has spurred Paramount to begin production on another theatrical film about the weapon-wielding, martial arts-knowing humanoid turtles. The studio has assigned screenwriters, Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec to the film, which is simply being called 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' at this point. The duo worked together on the upcoming continuation of the 'Mission: Impossible' series from director, Brad Bird, 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.' Michael Bay is on board as a producer of the new 'Turtles,' as are Brad Fuller and Andrew Form. Outside of the comic books and cartoon series, the turtles are best known for their 90's live-action films. They made a theatrical comeback in 2007 in the form of the animated feature, 'Tmnt.' While the film didn't exactly bomb,
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With movies like Star Trek and X-Men: First Class showing that reboots are the hip and trendy thing to do these days, Hollywood is dusting off some old relics and seeing if new life can be breathed into a couple of projects from the past.

Not that any of those guys are knocking down my door and begging for my input, but I think the best way to make a new Tmnt work is to totally ignore the children’s cartoon and take the story back to the grittier graphic novels.
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It's been almost a year since our last update on the planned reboot of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie franchise, but there's apparently been some recent movement on the project, with Paramount hiring a new writing duo to bring the heroes in a half-shell back to the big screen.

Last week’s employment report released by the government may have been pretty dismal, but Hollywood is already hard at work making sure June’s job numbers top last month’s by hiring four writers for various big name projects yesterday. You can almost feel the economy improving…
Everyone’s favorite heroes in a halfshell, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, are set to get the reboot treatment over at Platinum Dunes, where Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing. The production team has turned to Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec to revitalize the once popular franchise. The duo came to prominence thanks to their work on Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and have just completed a rewrite on Louis Leterrier’s Now...

Tron: Legacy remains one of those movies I simply can’t build up any kind of enthusiasm to ever checking out. The closest I got to seeing it is when I had it from Netflix for about three weeks, but I then decided that it shouldn’t just collect dust in my kitchen. I sent it back and got something I actually wanted to see. But, a sequel is happening, so maybe I’ll have to watch it in the near future. But I truly don’t see that happening. Despite poor reviews, with the film crossing the $400 million worldwide mark, we are likely getting another.

Legacy director Joseph Kosinski said back in April that the story for a third movie in the series was being worked on, while also giving some details on where they want to take things. A big step has just been taken for the movie,
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Paramount is in negotiations to distribute the upcoming family film ‘The Hauntrepreneur,’ according to The Hollywood Reporter. The horror thriller will be produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller’s production company Platinum Dunes. The three want to break into the action and thriller genres via their first-look deal with Paramount. ‘The Hauntrepreneur,’ which was written by Scott Rosenberg, follows a family that has trouble adjusting to a new town. They hire a man, known as the Hauntrepreneur, to try to bring them together by creating a haunted house filled with an odd group of people. Rosenberg was hired to write ‘The Hauntrepreneur,’ which is said to have a
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Though they always have a myriad of projects on their slate, you can add another to the list of movies that Platinum Dunes wants to make ... in the horror for the whole family genre. Interested? Read on for the 411!

According to THR Paramount is in negotiations to pick up The Hauntrepreneur, an original spec by Scott Rosenberg.

The story centers on a family that has trouble adjusting to a new town and hires a peculiar man, the Hauntrepreneur, to help it. The man attempts to bring them together by creating a haunted house populated by an odd cast of characters.

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